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Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain!Just think of all thetrillions and trillions of neuronsthatDIEeach daybecause there areNOeffective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 493 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.My back ground story is here:http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-background-story_8.html

Having a non-O blood group is associated with a higher risk
of heart attack, according to research presented today at Heart Failure
2017 and the 4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure.1
Lead author Tessa Kole, a Master’s degree student at the University
Medical Centre Groningen, the Netherlands, said: “It has been suggested
that people with non-O blood groups (A, B, AB) are at higher risk for
heart attacks and overall cardiovascular mortality, but this suggestion
comes from case-control studies which have a low level of evidence. If
this was confirmed it could have important implications for personalised
medicine.”
The current study was a meta-analysis of prospective studies
reporting on O and non-O blood groups, and incident cardiovascular
events including myocardial infarction (heart attack), coronary artery
disease, ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, cardiovascular events
and cardiovascular mortality.
The study included 1 362 569 subjects from 11 prospective cohorts,
described in nine articles. There were a total of 23 154 cardiovascular
events. The researchers analysed the association between blood group and
all coronary events, combined cardiovascular events, and fatal coronary
events.
The analysis of all coronary events included 771 113 people with a
non-O blood group and 519 743 people with an O blood group, of whom 11
437(1.5%) and 7 220 (1.4%) suffered a coronary event, respectively. The
odds ratio (OR) for all coronary events was significantly higher in
carriers of a non-O blood group, at 1.09 (95% confidence interval [CI]
of 1.06–1.13).
The analysis of combined cardiovascular events included 708 276
people with a non-O blood group and 476 868 people with an O blood
group, of whom 17 449 (2.5%) and 10 916 (2.3%) had an event,
respectively. The OR for combined cardiovascular events was
significantly higher in non-O blood group carriers, at 1.09 (95% CI
1.06–1.11).
The analysis of fatal coronary events did not show a significant difference between people with O and non-O blood groups.
“We demonstrate that having a non-O blood group is associated with a
9% increased risk of coronary events and a 9% increased risk of
cardiovascular events, especially myocardial infarction,” said Ms Kole.
The mechanisms that might explain this risk are under study. The
higher risk for cardiovascular events in non-O blood group carriers may
be due to having greater concentrations of von Willebrand factor, a
blood clotting protein which has been associated with thrombotic events.
Further, non-O blood group carriers, specifically those with an A blood
group, are known to have higher cholesterol. And galectin-3, which is
linked to inflammation and worse outcomes in heart failure patients, is
also higher in those with a non-O blood group.
Ms Kole said: “More research is needed to identify the cause of the
apparent increased cardiovascular risk in people with a non-O blood
group. Obtaining more information about risk in each non-O blood group
(A, B, and AB) might provide further explanations of the causes.”
She concluded: “In future, blood group should be considered in risk
assessment for cardiovascular prevention, together with cholesterol,
age, sex and systolic blood pressure. It could be that people with an A
blood group should have a lower treatment threshold for dyslipidaemia or
hypertension, for example. We need further studies to validate if the
excess cardiovascular risk in non-O blood group carriers may be amenable
to treatment.”https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases/non-o-blood-groups-associated-with-higher-risk-of-heart-attack?hit=wireag

Full bibliographic informationThe
abstract ‘ABO blood group and cardiovascular outcomes in the general
population: a meta-analysis’ will be presented during Moderated Poster
session 2 – The global problem of heart failure which takes place on 30
April from 10:00 to 11:00 in the Moderated Poster Area.

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